Books About Books

Books about: other books, literacy in general, writers, bookstores, literary culture. Usually non-fiction, but can be fiction as long as books are a central plot theme.


This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me (Maggie the Undying, #1)
How to Write a Love Story
The Library of Amorlin (The Age of Beasts, #1)
The Book Tour
The Bookstore Diaries
Son of Nobody
The Adjunct
Booked at Midnight (Midnights on the Square #2)
The Sisters of Book Row
All Booked Up
Shut Up and Read: A Memoir from Harriett’s Bookshop
The Story of Stories: The Million-Year History of a Uniquely Human Art
Trace Elements: Conversations on the Project of Science Fiction and Fantasy
Eine Seite noch: Warum Lesen uns so glücklich macht - Von der Autorin des SPIEGEL-Bestsellers "Das große Los" - Meike Winnemuth ist zurück! (German Edition)
The Astral Library
The Cinnamon Bun Book Store (Dream Harbor, #2)
How to Write a Love Story
The Ghostwriter
The Three Lives of Cate Kay
The Book Witch
The Bookstore Diaries
Whisper Sweet Nothings (Rosewood River, #6)
The Busybody Book Club
Marble Hall Murders (Susan Ryeland, #3)
The Mother-Daughter Book Club
Any Trope but You
Without a Clue
The Paris Library
Read Between the Lies
Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies (The Vacation Mysteries, #1)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Lincoln Moon by Michael Price NelsonThe Mystery of Mrs. Christie by Marie Benedict
Bookish Historical Fiction
70 books — 22 voters
Matilda by Roald DahlThe Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle ZevinThe Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip WilliamsThe Uncommon Reader by Alan BennettThe Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate
Bookish people (literary fiction)
43 books — 12 voters

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane SetterfieldFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury84 Charing Cross Road by Helene HanffThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónThe Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
Books on Books: metacovers
387 books — 104 voters

Inkheart by Cornelia FunkeThief of Lies by Brenda DrakeThe Eyre Affair by Jasper FfordeThe Neverending Story by Michael EndeInkspell by Cornelia Funke
Book-Jumping or Book-Travelling
150 books — 92 voters
30 Years Behind Bars by Karen  GedneyMatilda by Roald DahlBookishly Ever After by Mia  PageA Storybook Wedding by K.J. MiccichePeople of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
Book lovers & Bookworms
16 books — 14 voters

The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #1)
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
The Book Thief
84, Charing Cross Road
The Library Book
The Thirteenth Tale
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
Fahrenheit 451
The Reading List
Book Lovers
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
The Bookshop on the Corner (Kirrinfief, #1)
The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)

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